They seem to be pulling videos from different feeds like Blip and Google. They repost them to their site with a preroll video ad...and an image ad all around the video. They put a MyHeavy watermark on the video. They resize the video from the origin
There are lot of ways to catch cheaters: * Do the views come from the same subscriber? * Did views skyrocket in a certain period with a steady instead of random growth rate? * Did a user view more videos in a period than possible? * Is the ratio of views/
If YouTube doesn’t police commercial video spam, users will be alienated. Google, for its part, will lose part of the revenue opportunity it bought YouTube to capture — brand marketing via online video.
I complained over the weekend that YouTube is increasingly being gamed by users. I decided to test out how hard this would be - as it turns out, it’s exceptionally easy to rank among the most viewed videos and channels by simply refreshing the page.
The normal ratio for reviews to viewership is about 1:100 but many videos that rank highly for the day, are 1:3 or 1:2. In our casual observation, this seems to happen most in the morning, when we speculate that people are battling each other, jockeying f
